Pixies, one of the most influential alternative rock bands of all time, have announced a new Sydney show due to overwhelming demand. The music pioneers will now play a second show at the iconic Sydney Opera House Forecourt on Sunday, March 15. The first Sydney show on March 14 is now completely sold out. Pre-sale tickets for the show will be available to Sydney Opera members from 9am August 27 and My Live Nation members from 10am August 28. General on sale is Friday, August 30 at 11am. The announcement follows on from recent sellouts in Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth– proving Pixies fever in Australia is at an all-time high! New shows have now been added at the Palais Theatre, Fortitude Music Hall and Sydney Opera House as part of the band’s mammoth world tour, Come On Pilgrim… It’s Surfer Rosa.
Tickets for the second Sydney show go on sale at 11am, Friday, August 30.
For complete tour and ticket information, visit: livenation.com.au.
Pixies’ debut releases – the electrifying 1987 EP Come On Pilgrim and 1988’s debut full-length album, Surfer Rosa – brought rise to a new genre and defined contemporary music for a generation.
The tour will bear witness to both seminal albums being performed in full – plus new and old tracks spanning their extensive catalogue. Surfer Rosa is a record made up of rage, religion, gore, incest and superheroes named Tony – a debut album so good that it’s since been seen as a masterpiece. Produced by Steve Albini, it includes early Pixies classics such as “Bone Machine,” “Gigantic,” “Vamos” and “Where Is My Mind?”. Come On Pilgrim contained eight songs from the band’s first-ever studio session, produced by Gary Smith and recorded at his Fort Apache Studio near Boston.
Returning for what will be only their fourth visit to Australia, the band will perform at Melbourne’s Palais Theatre on March 9 and 10, then head to Brisbane for shows on March 12 and 13, not-to-be-missed momentous shows under the stars at Sydney Opera House Forecourt on March 14 and 15 before flying west for a final show at Fremantle Arts Centre on March 17.
Forming in Boston, Massachusetts in 1986, Pixies are often acclaimed as the most influential, pioneering alternative band of the late 80s, garnering extraordinary critical and popular acclaim. After five genre-defining studio albums, Pixies disbanded in 1993. The tide turned in 2004 – the band reunited and began touring, playing to sell-out crowds around the world including their first-ever Australian performances in 2007, later to be followed by a 13-show sold-out Doolittle tour in 2010 and again in 2017.
Pixies will release their brand new and eighth studio album, Beneath The Eyrie, on September 13 (through Infectious/BMG). Visceral, musically cinematic, otherworldly but strangely familiar and a bit unsettling – the album boasts 12 new tracks produced by GRAMMY nominated Tom Dalgety (Ghost, Royal Blood, Pixies’ Head Carrier). Lead single “On Graveyard Hill,” is an in-your-face, classic Pixies tale of imminent, ominous doom. Fans can pre-order the album now. The evolution of the album’s creative process is uniquely documented in a 12-episode podcast entitled It’s a Pixies Podcast.
Pixies
Come On Pilgrim… It’s Surfer Rosa
Australia & New Zealand 2020
Presented by Live Nation
PALAIS THEATRE, MELBOURNE MONDAY MARCH 9 – NEW SHOW!
P̶A̶L̶A̶I̶S̶ ̶T̶H̶E̶A̶T̶R̶E̶,̶ ̶M̶E̶L̶B̶O̶U̶R̶N̶E̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶T̶U̶E̶S̶D̶A̶Y̶ ̶M̶A̶R̶C̶H̶ ̶1̶0̶ ̶–̶ ̶S̶O̶L̶D̶ ̶O̶U̶T̶
FORTITUDE MUSIC HALL, BRISBANE THURSDAY MARCH 12 – NEW SHOW!
̶F̶O̶R̶T̶I̶T̶U̶D̶E̶ ̶M̶U̶S̶I̶C̶ ̶H̶A̶L̶L̶,̶ ̶B̶R̶I̶S̶B̶A̶N̶E̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶F̶R̶I̶D̶A̶Y̶ ̶M̶A̶R̶C̶H̶ ̶1̶3̶ ̶–̶ ̶S̶O̶L̶D̶ ̶O̶U̶T̶
̶S̶Y̶D̶N̶E̶Y̶ ̶O̶P̶E̶R̶A̶ ̶H̶O̶U̶S̶E̶ ̶F̶O̶R̶E̶C̶O̶U̶R̶T̶,̶ ̶S̶Y̶D̶N̶E̶Y̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶S̶A̶T̶U̶R̶D̶A̶Y̶ ̶M̶A̶R̶C̶H̶ ̶1̶4̶ ̶-̶ ̶S̶O̶L̶D̶ ̶O̶U̶T̶
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE FORECOURT, SYDNEY SUNDAY MARCH 15 – NEW SHOW!
F̶R̶E̶M̶A̶N̶T̶L̶E̶ ̶A̶R̶T̶S̶ ̶C̶E̶N̶T̶R̶E̶,̶ ̶P̶E̶R̶T̶H̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶T̶U̶E̶S̶D̶A̶Y̶ ̶M̶A̶R̶C̶H̶ ̶1̶7̶ SOLD OUT
SECOND SYDNEY SHOW ON SALE 11AM FRIDAY 30 AUGUST
ALL OTHER SHOWS ON SALE NOW
For complete tour and ticketing information, visit pixiesmusic.com & livenation.com.au
